Meet Atlas: The Pentagon's 'Freakily Lifelike' Robot

The Defense Department has long teamed up with technology firms to create weapons and vehicles like fighter jets. One of its latest projects is a collaboration with robotics firm Boston Dynamics to build Atlas, a bipedal robot that can walk, jump and climb and could be the future of disaster response on and off the battlefield.

New Tech City host Manoush Zomorodi was kind of freaked out when the DOD unveiled Atlas last week: "It did look like the Terminator had finally arrived for real."

She sat down with tech and security journalist Noah Shachtman, who explained why the Pentagon's R&D wing DARPA is pouring money into humanoid robots.

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